--- name: "Mamoudou Athie" canonical: "https://film.one/person/mamoudou-athie" fi1m_id: "mamoudou-athie" imdb_id: "nm6974206" tmdb_id: 1639848 wikidata_id: "Q40550981" roles: ["Actor"] born: "25 July 1988" reviewed_on_fi1m: 4 average_fi1m_score: 58 average_as: "actor" average_over: 4 updated: "2026-09-19T16:25:59.845322+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Mamoudou Athie ## Identity Mamoudou Athie - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mamoudou-athie - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** mamoudou-athie - **IMDb ID:** nm6974206 - **TMDB ID:** 1639848 - **Wikidata ID:** Q40550981 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamoudou_Athie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40550981, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6974206/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1639848 Actor. Born 25 July 1988 in Nouakchott, Mauritania. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 25 July 1988, Nouakchott, Mauritania - **Active:** 2022–present - **Average Fi1m score:** 58, as actor, over 4 titles - **Fi1m against the critics:** 58 to 58 across 4 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 4 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Comedy 3, Drama 2, Romance 2, Adventure 1, Animation 1, Family 1 - **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1,649m across 4 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamoudou_Athie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40550981, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6974206/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1639848 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*The Drama*](https://film.one/film/the-drama.md) (65) - **Disney+:** [*Elemental*](https://film.one/film/elemental.md) (64) - **Netflix:** [*Jurassic World Dominion*](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-dominion.md) (42) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Mamoudou Athie > Mamoudou Athie is the calm one, the man who listens while the table shouts, and he does it so well that the big films keep using him as ballast. His steadiness holds *Elemental* and *The Drama* together; somebody should let him carry one. Watch what Mamoudou Athie does when everyone else in a scene is losing their temper. In *The Drama* (2026) the wedding party is in uproar and his Mike sits in the middle of it, a man who would like everyone to calm down and knows they will not. In *Elemental* (2023) his Wade cries at a sunset, at a kind word, at his own sentences, and never once raises his voice. He is the calmest person at the table, and he is rarely the person the film is about. That is the odd shape of the career so far. He trained for the stage, and his first leads came in smaller films, *Uncorked* (2020) and the horror-thriller *Black Box* (2020), followed by the horror series *Archive 81* (2022). We have not reviewed those, and they are where his admirers say he does his best work: grounded, careful, close up. What we have reviewed is the run of larger films that followed, and in most of them he is the steady one at the edge of the frame while somebody else gets the scenes. The best of these is *Elemental*, for Peter Sohn at Pixar, where a soft, unhurried sincerity that would be unbearable in a live actor is charming coming out of a man made of water. We went in braced for a wet blanket and came out fond of him; the dinner at his mother's flat, where the family compete to make one another cry, made us laugh harder than anything in the film before it. The worst is *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022), which hands him a Biosyn executive with a conscience and nothing whatever to play, and he plays the conscience because it is all there is. *Kinds of Kindness* (2024), for Yorgos Lanthimos, gives him three parts across three fables, and he fits Lanthimos's flat, obedient world without ever being the thing you remember about it. The complaint, then, is not with him. Athie has a quality most actors cannot fake: he looks as if he is listening, and he lets you see him decide not to say something. Directors keep casting that quality as ballast. It steadies *The Drama*, where Kristoffer Borgli gives Alana Haim the lines that grate and Athie the job of absorbing them, and it steadies *Elemental*, and both films are better for it. But ballast goes at the bottom of the boat, and none of these films has yet put him at the wheel. He has said he loves work that feels fresh and risky, and the Lanthimos film suggests he means it. What he needs now is a director who will do with a whole film what Sohn did with forty minutes of *Elemental*: leave him alone with one other person and let him talk. Until then he will go on being the reason a scene holds, and we will go on wondering why nobody has built one around him. ## Biography Mamoudou Athie is an American actor. Born in Mauritania in 1988, he moved to the United States as an infant and grew up in Maryland. He trained at the William Esper Studio and graduated with an MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 2014. Athie has appeared in supporting roles in films including *The Circle* (2017), *Unicorn Store* (2017), *The Front Runner* (2018), *Underwater* (2020), *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022), *The Burial* (2023) and *Kinds of Kindness* (2024). He voiced Wade in the Pixar film *Elemental* (2023) and is set to appear as Mike in *The Drama* (2026). On television he has had roles in *The Get Down* (2016–2017), *Sorry for Your Loss* (2018–2019) and the anthology series *Cake* (2019). He received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for his work in *Cake*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, variety.com.* ## On Fi1m (4) - *The Drama* (2026), Fi1m 65, as Mike — [page](https://film.one/film/the-drama.md) - *Kinds of Kindness* (2024), Fi1m 63, as Will / Neil / Morgue Nurse — [page](https://film.one/film/kinds-of-kindness.md) - *Elemental* (2023), Fi1m 64, as Wade (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/elemental.md) - *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022), Fi1m 42, as Ramsay Cole — [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-dominion.md) ## Complete filmography (31) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Via Negativa* (2026), Actor - *The Drama* (2026), as Mike — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-drama.md) - *Puddysticks* (2026), as Peter - *Wardriver* (2026), as Oscar - *By Design* (2026), as Olivier - *Laid* (2024), series, as Robert - *An Almost Christmas Story* (2024), as Pelly (voice) - *Kinds of Kindness* (2024), as Will / Neil / Morgue Nurse — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/kinds-of-kindness.md) - *Can* (2024), as The Boyfriend - *The Burial* (2023), as Hal Dockins - *Elemental* (2023), as Wade (voice) — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/elemental.md) - *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022), as Ramsay Cole — Fi1m 42, [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-dominion.md) - *Archive 81* (2022), series, as Dan Turner - *Black Box* (2020), as Nolan - *Uncorked* (2020), as Elijah - *Underwater* (2020), as Rodrigo Nagenda - *Cake* (2019), series, as Jerome - *Oh Jerome, No* (2019), series, as Jerome · Executive Producer - *Watch Room* (2019), as Nathan - *The Front Runner* (2018), as A.J. Parker - *Sorry for Your Loss* (2018), series, as Matt - *Unicorn Store* (2017), as Virgil - *Patti Cake$* (2017), as Basterd - *The Circle* (2017), as Jared - *One Percent More Humid* (2017), as Jack - *The Get Down* (2016), series, as Grandmaster Flash - *Oh Jerome, No* (2016), as Jerome - *Jean of the Joneses* (2016), as Ray - *Experimenter* (2015), as Crying Man (uncredited) - *Madam Secretary* (2014), series, as Staffer - *Hystoria*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Mamoudou Athie](https://film.one/media/person/6923/gallery-b60008ce8bfc.jpg) Mamoudou Athie — ColliderVideo, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Mamoudou_Athie_at_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_on_ColliderVideo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Mamoudou Athie at the "By Design" red carpet at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. 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